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Step-by-Step Guide to Creating an AWS RDS Database Instance

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 Amazon Relational Database Service (AWS RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. Instead of managing servers, patching OS, and handling backups manually, AWS RDS takes care of the heavy lifting so you can focus on building applications and data pipelines. In this blog, we’ll walk through how to create an AWS RDS instance , key configuration choices, and best practices you should follow in real-world projects. What is AWS RDS? AWS RDS is a managed database service that supports popular relational engines such as: Amazon Aurora (MySQL / PostgreSQL compatible) MySQL PostgreSQL MariaDB Oracle SQL Server With RDS, AWS manages: Database provisioning Automated backups Software patching High availability (Multi-AZ) Monitoring and scaling Prerequisites Before creating an RDS instance, make sure you have: An active AWS account Proper IAM permissions (RDS, EC2, VPC) A basic understanding of: ...

6 Exclusive Differences Between Structured and Unstructured data

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Here's a basic interview question for Big data engineers. Why it's basic means many Bachelor degrees now offering courses on Big data, as a beginner, understanding of data is a little tricky. So interviewers stress this point. Don't worry, I made it simplified. So you get a clear concept. I share here a total of six differences between these. In today's world, we have a lot of data. That data is the unstructured format.   Structured Data The major data format is text, which can be string or numeric. The date is also supported. The data model is fixed before inserting the data. Data is stored in the form of a table, making it easy to search. Not easy to scale. Version is maintained as a column in the table. Transaction management and concurrency are easy to support. Unstructured data The data format can be anything from text to images, audio to videos. The data model cannot be fixed since the nature of the data can change. Consider a tweet message that could be text foll...